A/N: I want to thank everyone who read the first chapter and those who had given me some feedback. I really appreciate all the views and I cannot wait for there to be more. I didn't expect to get even 5 views but I got instead 23 on the first day. I am going to be trying to adding new chapters every day or every other day. So please keep coming back every day to check for new chapters. I will let you all know that this chapter can get emotional and I will admit that it even messed with my own feelings as I was writing it so please be sure to check it out and leave me some feedback.

Chapter 2

Freddie was still in the Cafeteria playing with his food. Turns out tonight was spaghetti and meatballs. He was also given a side of brussels sprouts but he never really liked his veggies too much. Freddie tolerated some of them but after his mom tried to force feed him a bunch of asparagus Freddie never really felt a want to eat any vegetables.

Freddie just pushed his brussels sprouts around his tray with his fork. He was alone at a table sitting with a depressed face just staring at his food. Freddie was startled when a tray was placed directly across from him.

"What's wrong dude? Did something happen" a man asked.

Freddie looked up quickly and saw that it was Andrew who was seated directly across from him with a genuine worried look on his face.

"Don't worry about it." Freddie replied.

"Dude, look if something is bothering you, you can tell me. I…"

"I said don't worry about it!" Freddie screamed. The entire cafeteria fell silent. It was as if somebody just stopped time and had turned everyone's eyes on him. Freddie quickly sat down his face red with embarrassment. Andrew saw his face and noticed that Freddie was going to cry.

Andrew stood up, grabbed Freddie by the wrist and ran with him to the dorm room. Freddie was protesting the entire time. They finally reached the dorm room and Andrew threw Freddie in there.

"Alright Freddie" Andrew said. "We are alone in our room. Now tell me what's wrong. Why are you acting this way? I may have only known you for about a day but I can tell something is bothering you. Now spill it."

Freddie just sat there with his hands over his face crying his eyes out. He didn't know what to think let alone where to start. How was he going to come clean though? He just didn't know where to begin.

"Fine. I'll tell you." Freddie began to say in between his sobs. "First, answer this. Last night. What did we do last night?"

"Is that what's been bothering you?" Andrew asked

"Just answer the question." Freddie demanded

"Fine. We went to Buffalo Wild Wings. We chatted and had a few drinks. You had about 5 Sex on the Beaches, and were totally plastered. I had to carry you out of the place and I brought you back here and put you in bed. I didn't change you into your night clothes cause I thought it would be a little inappropriate to do for you. We got back early in the morning so I stayed up cause I had to do morning Physical Training with my unit about 3 hours later. Afterwards I came back cooked you some breakfast, and woke you up. Everything else you know about."

Freddie was amazed to hear about this. He didn't realize his roommate looked out for him this much. He was surprised a random stranger whom he only knew for about a day took care of him as if though they had been friends. It was respectful, but Andrew could have left him in the place drunk and passed out and he could have been taken advantage of and possibly have been intoxicated for underage drinking.

"Didn't you say you were gay too?" Freddie asked.

"So that's what this is about."

"Huh?" Freddie asked.

"You are like everyone else. You hear I'm gay and immediately think that I want to fuck your brains out. I say something personal about myself to you and you immediately lose trust in me. You know I didn't really expect much of you Freddie but I thought you had enough respect for people to give them the benefit of the doubt." Andrew said.

"I'm sorry"

"No. I am sorry. I just get irritated cause this is not the first time something like this has happened. Look, no, we didn't have sex. I don't take advantage of people like that. Especially those who I consider my friends."

"You consider me your friend?" Freddie questioned.

"Yes. When I was in high school I may have been well known but I never really had any friends. When I came out people ridiculed me, and bullied me constantly. I eventually stood up for myself, but that's when the bullying got worse. They stopped physically hurting me, but it evolved into emotional and psychological bullying. I received love letters from some of the cuter guys in the school but when I talked them they said it was all a joke, called me a faggot and embarrassed me over and over again. Eventually I was a pariah and they treated me like I was a monster, and had a deadly virus. I was cast into the depths of the darkest pits of despair and I never thought I would come out. I was on the verge of suicide but was talked down from it by my only friend. So, I'm sorry if I wanted to add you to my very small circle of friend."

Freddie was shocked by this story. He felt like a total dick. He never considered that Andrew was innocent and that so much terrible crap has happened to him. Freddie had to do something but didn't know what to do.

"Look I'm going to leave you alone." Andrew said as he got up. "I'll just see you tomorrow I'm going to go…" That's all Andrew could say before his mouth was stopped by the soft tender lips that were attached to Freddie Benson.

Andrew broke away from the surprise kiss. "Dude what the hell?" Asked Andrew.

"I don't know. I'm sorry. I didn't know what I was thinking. I just let my body take over. I don't know what I was thinking." replied Freddie.

"You're right Freddie you didn't think!" Andrew said as he stormed out of the dorm room.

Freddie just sat there alone, covered his face with his hands and started to cry. Little did Freddie know that Andrew was outside in the hallway tearing up. Andrew started to walk down the Hallway to his car and drove off of campus. Freddie just cried all night long until he fell asleep.

When Freddie woke up the next morning his eyes were crusted and his face was still red. He looked across the room to see if Andrew was there. The untouched bed was a sign that he didn't come back at all during the night.

Freddie got up out of bed, and looked at the full-size mirror that Andrew had hung up the other day. He looked terrible and smelled just as bad as he looked. Freddie decided that maybe a shower might help him feel better and definitely would get rid of the terrible smell.

Freddie changed into his robe and grabbed his showering objects. He walked to the latrine and started up a hot shower. As he got in Freddie replayed what had transpired last night. It made him even more depressed so he quickly finished his shower and got out. When he got back to the dorm room he saw Andrew at his closet packing his bag.

"Don't worry Freddie I'm just packing my stuff up right now, and I'll get them out of here this evening. You will have a new roommate tomorrow." Andrew said.

"No, Andrew don't. Look, I'm sorry about the kiss. I'm just confused right now is all."

"I know. That's why I'm leaving. I don't want to distract you. Maybe when you are sure about how you feel we can be roommates again, until then I'll stay at the ROTC building." Andrew said as he zipped up his last bag.

"Andrew don't please. Look I don't know anyone here and I don't want a different roommate. Your nice, funny and well, you actually care about me."

"Yes, I care about you, and maybe I wanted a relationship with you if you really were interested but I can't have you confusing me with this. One minute you are pissed off at me because you thought I had sex with you and then the next minute you kiss me. Once your emotions are settled down we can talk, till then just leave me alone."

Andrew grabbed his backpack and left to go to his class. Freddie just sat there in his room alone. He didn't have class today, at least not according to his schedule. He laid down in his bed all day, thought about how he truly felt about Andrew. He really was a nice guy, and he made Freddie happy when he was around. Freddie reflected off of what happened throughout the day and realized that whenever Andrew wasn't around he was less happy and just a little depressed.

Time flew by and apparently, Freddie had fallen asleep, for when he looked at the clock it read 7:30 PM. Andrew will be back any minute. Freddie quickly got dressed and as soon as he was Done Andrew opened the door.

"Hey." Freddie said.

"Hey." Andrew replied. There was an awkward silence that fell over the room. Andrew walked over to his bags and grabbed them.

"Wait." Freddie said

"Look Freddie, I told you.

"I know what you said Andrew" Freddie interrupted "Leave your stuff here and start unpacking."

"Why?" Andrew asked

"Well, I am not fully sure of how I feel about you. I mean. I know I have feelings for you. They are just starting to develop and, well It's not fair to have me determine exactly how I feel about you. I do understand though. Please understand though, that I never felt this way about a guy. I have only dated girls, but I am in college so I thought I'd try something new. So please stay."

"Are you saying you want to go out with me?"

"I'm saying that I'm not opposed to the idea." replied Freddie. "So, will you stay?"

Andrew thought for a bit. He considered all the possibilities that could happen before he answered.

"Alright, I can work with that. Only one condition though."

"What is it?" Freddie asked.

"Promise me that no matter what may happen between us that you will always be no less than my friend."

Freddie smiled and replied, "Deal."

Andrew smiled back and kissed Freddie. This was going to be the beginning of something bigger and a lot more challenging than either of the two could predict.